[Amforth] Release 4.4 tagged and published

[Matthias T. <mt...@we...>]

Hi,

I've just tagged and published a new release named 4.4.

Noteworthy changes are

- The Game of Life with terminal output (requires controllers
  with at least many KB RAM, otherwise make the world small
  enough). A queens puzzle solver as well (more kind of a
  benchmark however).

- The reference card got a more compact layout, many bugs
  from the documentation headers in the source file are gone.

- new interrupt handling. The ideas are relativly old but
  now it works well. Many thanks to Wojciech and Al, I beg
  your pardon that it took such a long time to implement. But
  sometimes some active tests such as Erichs will speed up
  things ;=)

- The recognizer thing is now documented (to some degree);
  I sent an article to the German Forth FIG about it, that
  should be translated into plain English ASAP. Leons floating
  point library (a few patches are needed to work with it, just
  use the float.frt that is included) can now be included at
  runtime and the text interpreter can deal afterwards with
  the numbers nativly. Great stuff.

- internally there are even more source files and the
  amforth.asm file got smaller than ever. COLD is now
  WARM and the new COLD is what was in amforth.asm...

- not really my favorite: If you set WANT_IGNORECASE to
  1 and rebuild amforth you get a case insensive dictionary
  lookup. It took a few lines of code in icompare.asm, The
  discussion about it took more time than the implementation. Brr

Have fun, esp with Life

Matthias